Anyone else symptoms? AF due Oct 1

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Anyone else symptoms? AF due Oct 1
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Thu, 09-25-2003 - 11:47am
Well guys 6 days to go! LOL I am so nuts I took a HPT yesterday, one week early of course BFN I just like wasting my money!! This month is the month guys I can feel it, unless my body is playing mass tricks on me! My bb's are sooooo sore, I am hungry, and not feeling good (like flu) and getting lots of cramps (which is not normal) so I think these are good signs! Anyone else?

Shannin

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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 11:50am
They should have a crazy emoticon!! LOL Just a quick thingy.... Steffie has a post one what PG test pick up what level of HGC. So I was taking equate cause of the price, and it is the worst for hgc... 100...... so going to pick up day seven next only needs 25 lol it is a great post.

Shannin

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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 7:36pm
Hi ! I'm not sure about the possiblity of getting ++ using HPT before your period is due.It works with some poeple and they detect pregnancy about 3 days before AF is due.Others may wait after AF is late for a week or more and still get --

I prefer blood test, they are more accurate and show results earlier than HPT. There are two types of blood test, quantative beta-hcg & qualitatibe blood test. The quantative one shows the exact amount of hcg in blood even if it's one unit only, and qualitative one give you either positive or negative.

As far as i now, the qualitative blood test can show up ++ on the day of your AF is due. The quantative one is the most sensitive one as it gives you the exact amount of HCG when you are early in your pregnancy and HCG isn't yet high to be detcted by all other tests.

My AF is due 28-29 Sept I COULDN'T WAIT TO KNOW ! i went on 22 Sept ( one week before AF is due )and took the quantative blood test ,it showed almost no HCG in blood which means BFN . I thought maybe i tested early so Tommorrow i'll go for another quantative blood test . I CAN'T WAIT ANTMORE !

If the test detcted HCG in blood and the level was higher than i'm pregnant, if there was no change since the last time then i'm not pregnant.I hope i'm Not pregnant.Wish me luck.

I hope this helped you somehow.Keep me posted with your test results.

Good Luck Blonde.

BIG FAT BABY BUST TO YOU *:)


Edited 9/26/2003 7:43:47 PM ET by worried_girl

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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 8:07pm
Af should be due to arrive for me on October 2nd, just 1 day after you. How have you been feeling? If you think that you're having symptoms, what are they? Just wondering. I started my Af on 9/2 and ended on 9/7. My DH & I had sex on the 17th of Sept.. I have been experiencing some sypmtoms, but I don't know if I'm *actually experiencing Pregnancy Sypmtoms OR Period/AF symptoms. I don't know when I actually O'ed. I just know that we BD during my fertile time. My bb's have been sore now for 2 days(they also hurt when I get ready to start my AF), but not my nips. I'm still gassy, my back hurts(also hurts when I get ready to start my AF), feel tired, light-headedness-just a wee-bit, I've felt *very* hot at work and headaches. I probably have a few more, but I can't think of them.

**How soon could I actually test and ~maybe~ get a reading from the HPT? As of today, I'm on CD#24. **

~Joanna

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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 8:42pm
Hi Everyone! Does anyone's nipples hurt extremely bad and are majorly sensitive? Mine are driving me crazy! My bb's haven't gotten any bigger, but they feel like they're really swollen. I'm also very gassy. So much that I get horrible gas cramps. I've been getting cramps for a couple days now, and usually when I get cramps my period starts the next day. But If I am pregnant, I'm only 6 days. Is this to soon to be having symptoms? I've taking 2 PT's so far and both neg. But ofcourse it's probably just to early to test. Any opinions?
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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 9:59pm
Hi ! Actually i'm very confused and worried as you. I don't know also when i ovulated. For the symptons, i just felt with pains in my lower back from 3 days and in my lower abdominal too. I could be a litle gassy maybe i have some usual stomach ache and this could be normal. I just Don't know. The symptons aren't Cleear to decide as the PMS symptons could be like pregnanacy ones.Also it could be all in your head and because you're worrying that you could be pregnant you start feeling it !

The only way to KNOW the answer and STOP the worries was to TEST. I'm in total panic, stressed out, worrying, thinking.. etc and i can't wait till my AF is due!

My AF is due on 28-29 Sept. Poeple told me it could be late from the great stress you're passing through and you are not pregnant.Therefore i thought that the blood test will put an End to all this!

I took this HCG blood test ( gives exact amount of HCG in blood even if it's only 1 unit)on 22 Sept ( one week before Af is due) and it didn't detect HCG , which means BFN. So i thought maybe i tested early.I can't stop worrying So Tommorrow i'll go again for another HCG blood test ,if there's no change in the result ( same result as the test before ) then i'm Not pregnant.I hope i'm Not!

Regarding the HTP, from what i've read and heard,it can detect pregnancy 3 days prior to AF but for others it could take maybe week or more to give ++, therefore i trust more the blood test, it's accurate and gives you the result early ( if you can't wait )

If you don't want a blood test, then you have no option then sticking to HPT. Try to test on Monday ( first urine morning) if you got -- then test again on Wednesday if the result is still -- then wait till you miss the period and test again ( in case you didn't get your period yet)

If i were in your place ( I'm actually in it!) i would take this sensitive blood test and save myself from waiting and worrying for days , enough what i already passed through! I hope i've been a help to you. Keep me posted always.It's better to feel that someone is into all this with you and you're not alone.Wish you Good Luck !


Edited 9/26/2003 10:00:22 PM ET by worried_girl

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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 10:04pm
Hi

I need to to wait til monday too if i'm being realistic but it' so hard!

I took a test this morning (fri), it was neg but also too early as i'm not due til earliest sun. I've been feeling strange i must admit (if u read my message-made earlier, you'll understand!) Isn't it funny that although you don't feel pregnant, you may have that chance of being pregnant so you 'feel' pregnant. Do you know what i mean? Ignore me if not,

Keep yourself updated, i'll be reading. x
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Fri, 09-26-2003 - 10:20pm
Worried Girl:

You see, I'm a bit confused because I'm having head-cold like sypmtoms. I keep on sneezing and I've been getting headaches and feeling kind of dizzy/light-headedness since Monday/Tuesday. My head kind of feels like it does when you have an ear infection. I guess that is the best way to describe it. Maybe I'm coming down w/a sinus infection or head-cold. Who knows? Does having hiccups mean anything when a woman is Pregnant? Stupid question, I know, but I just wondered. So, you really think I should hold off till Monday to take a HPT? Would you think that taking a test THIS Sunday is too early? I'm stressed, granted, but not as much as I have been in the past w/other pregnancy scares. I'm just going to hold out and just wait for good'ol AF/missed AF OR then take a test sometime next week. I'll keep you updated. Have you had any spotting or any mid-cycle bleeding? I haven't, but I usually don't anyway. I know what you mean about having someone to talk w/this about! My husband keeps on driving me insane and just doens't quite understand it all. I've been feeling a little tired lately, but I've also been working longer and harder too and plus getting ready for AF just makes me sleepy. I just hope that the stress of ALL of this doesn't prolong my AF!!!!! I want her to rear her ugly head! If my sypmtoms persist, then I won't know what to think, until I take the Hpt. I'll be stopping by quite often! ~Good Luck~ I just know that I'm not going to the DR. to have a blood test done because of money and it will bite if it is negative and then I get socked w/a $300 bill! eek! I'll just wait it out for another 5 more days. Oh well. I have major med. ins. but it does NOT cover Maternity.

~Joanna

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Sat, 09-27-2003 - 12:25am
Joanna, I can feel well al what you're going through.For the symptons, i heard once from a doc that when a women worried so much about feeling pregnant, she starts to reactand feel the pregnancy symptons even if she's Not pregnant. Don't you here serveral women saying lots of symptons and it all end up by AF at the end.

If you're not going to take a blood test, then you have to try to relax so that the stress don't make you AF late and you start Worrying More and More.You said thatyour cycle is 29-31 days so that means you could get your period from 30 Sept-2 Oct.

I knew from someone over the net that she got ++ at 5 days before her AF was due using the "First Response" brand and at the same day she did a blood test and her HCG was 69

Also other poeple got ++ at 3 days before AF is due using the same kind of test.

I thin this depends on the level of the HCG in the blood ( if there is pregnacy )

I know it's to heard to *wait* worrying whether you're pregnant or not. Anyhow it's ok if you want to take the test This Sunday but don't forget to use the first morning urine. You could buy First Response( pack of 2 )and try it, if it gives you negative, try again on Wednesday ( as HCG doubles every 2-3 days), if you still got negative, wait another day or something for your period.If you missed the period ( this could also be from Stress) repeat the test again and I hope that you'll Get AF in time and everything will turn out the way you want.

I want to ask you a question !

If the HCG blood test ( shows the exact amount of HCG even if 1 unit only) that i'll take tommorow didn't detect any HCG in blood as before ,does that mean for * SURE * that i'm NOT pregnant even if my AF is still due 2-3 days ????

Keep me posted every often and wish me good luck in my test tommorow.

It's good to talk with you and try not to worry so as not to delay your period.

Relax ! and try to think that you're Not pregnaant and all these are Just worries.

Good Luck to you.

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Sat, 09-27-2003 - 11:29am
Well this is what I know on HGC.... It doubles every second day (which I am sure most of us know LOL ) However... egg has to implant before hgc can be read. Implantation can take up to a week after conception, so say you are on a "28 day" cycle... normal conception is "suppose" to take place 14 days after first day of last LPM so say you don't O till 15-16 days, then conception takes place and implantation is 10 days later, HGC won't be picked up till 4 days after AF is due... doesn't happen much but can happen. As far as HPT go.... Me personally I took equate here recently BFN... I found out though that equate is one of the worst in picking up HGC (uhg!!) wish I would of know that before I bought it!! My last PG I took the 4 days early first response, took it early.. can't remeber how many days, think it was the four, middle afternoon, and got a very faint ++ line. So think I am going back to that LOL cost $20.00 can for two tests... OUCH! Someone asked me about symptoms.... oh my.... breast feel like they are burning, feeling flu like symptoms (hot, queezy, tired) started the peeing more thing (yippy!) I know this month I am, I can feel it, just waiting for test to come back ++ going to go to drs this afternoon their tests are suppose to be pritty good... LOL I will keep you guys posted!! Good luck to everyone trying, I also put up a link yesterday on HPT hgc levels, and hgc levels during pregnancy, I will bump it.

Shannin

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Sat, 09-27-2003 - 7:52pm
Hi Joanna ! I just got the result of the HCG blood test that i did today.

It was ( HCG <1)

This is the "most sensitive blood test" that detect HCG even i it's 1 unit only.

As you know my LMP was on 1 Sept, i had intercourse on 13 Sept ( unprotected sex using withdrawlmethod) and my period is due 28-29 Sep.

On 22 Sept, i did this HCG blood test, the result was ( HCG < 1)

On 27 Sept, i did again HCG blood test, the result was ( HCG <1)

Today (27 Sept) is almost 14 days from the intercourse and AF is due either tommorrow or after.

There wasn't even a slight change in HCG in between both tests.

Do you think that still i could be pregnant? or I'm really Not pregnant?

Thinking and worrying is driving me out of me mind. Tell me your opinion!

Also i'm willing to hear SEVERAL opinions and advice on this ASAP !